I heard through a friend that Buckhead Saloon is going to close. After being a good "young professionals" bar, they lost their luster and resorted to the 18+ college crowd, which drove off regulars. I stopped goign regularly about a year ago.

Apparently, the owners/management want to transform it into a Hip Hop Club. I read on my buddy's blog, who was formerly the general manager there, that it will close after new year's.

http://rtownlife.com/?p=372

^is a link to the article that i read about the news.

Any truth to this?

Also, did Blue Martini recently close as well?

12/16/2009 12:20:24 PM

i thought blue martini was closing for renovations but i do know that they stopped having live bands/performers during the week and were now closed on sundays. thats sad if blue martini closed....i liked that place.

12/16/2009 12:21:40 PM

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"Wearhouse District"

12/16/2009 12:26:44 PM

Well for all you atheists out there, here is proof that there is a God.

12/16/2009 12:44:07 PM

A hip hop club is a great idea. We need more bars in that part of town where I can get stabbed in the neck with half a Heineken bottle.

12/16/2009 12:47:30 PM

good riddance, the management there was full of dickheads

12/16/2009 12:47:31 PM

blue martini is getting renovated, but i wouldn't mind seeing that place burn to the ground.

12/16/2009 12:48:58 PM

buckhead blows

12/16/2009 12:49:41 PM

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"Apparently, the owners/management want to transform it into a Hip Hop Club"

i call dibs on starting the "NC State football player shot at Raleigh hip hop club" thread

12/16/2009 12:51:42 PM

I guess I'll just have to walk another 2 blocks and hang out at Tantra.

Haha, I'm kidding. No one goes there either.

12/16/2009 12:52:45 PM

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"After being a good "young professionals" bar"

lol, how long did that last like 30 seconds? I wish it was more like the Buckhead Saloon in Charlotte, that place is great.

12/16/2009 12:52:51 PM

ugh... I did not like Buckhead... so I'm not sad... sorry

12/16/2009 12:54:39 PM

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"WORST BAR EVER"

12/16/2009 12:55:31 PM

It sucks the place is closing, but I never liked going there. I can talk really loud if I need to, but even that wasn't enough to carry a conversation in that place. Everyone who works there will need hearing aids soon. Despite not liking the place, I've never not had fun when we'd go.

Also, it's not "Buckheads", as the crowd who often goes there calls it.

Bye Buckhead

12/16/2009 12:59:08 PM

i did't like buckhead either

though i'm not sure they'll have more success with a hip hop club

12/16/2009 12:59:28 PM

We went about 3 weeks ago on a Friday night and there were about 20 people there all night


I had fun, but no way they can be doing good with those numbers

12/16/2009 1:02:08 PM

I never really thought the place would fall apart like this though. I always figured it was packed on weekends, though I haven't been in over a year - I work weekends.

12/16/2009 1:04:49 PM

buckhead sucks

12/16/2009 1:35:59 PM

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"i thought blue martini was closing for renovations but i do know that they stopped having live bands/performers during the week and were now closed on sundays. thats sad if blue martini closed....i liked that place."

I think most bars are struggling in this economy. Rum Runners also is now closed on Sunday and Monday. Sunday used to be $2 night. As far as Buckheads, I had to go there with a friend and it was nothing special. I would rather go to the Flying Saucer to drink beer, or go to Rum Runners, or The Pour House, if I want to see live music. You can't go wrong with Buffalo Wild Wings either when you want to watch many sporting events at the same time.

12/16/2009 2:02:37 PM

i think a Whiskey River should take its place...

12/16/2009 2:07:05 PM

Haha ill be glad to see this day coming.

Buckhead new years eve party.

Were gonna party like its.... Okay you guys have to leave now.

12/16/2009 2:08:29 PM

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"Haha ill be glad to see this day coming. Buckhead new years eve party. Were gonna party like its.... Okay you guys have to leave now."

pretty much. they'll stay open for NYE and then shut down the next day. anything to make the last few $$$$$

12/16/2009 2:09:00 PM

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"We went about 3 weeks ago on a Friday night and there were about 20 people there all night I had fun, but no way they can be doing good with those numbers"

Jillians (same building) was the same way the last night it was open before Buckhead took over. It's hard to keep a bar going because there are too many competing with each other.

12/16/2009 2:11:19 PM

didn't this place pretty much just open up?

12/16/2009 2:13:00 PM

^It's been open for about 3 years now. Jillians closed in 2006 right before my cousin got married. Buckhead took over not too long after that.

12/16/2009 2:16:58 PM

Someone at Buckhead called me earlier this week to tell me I won a VIP party. I told her I wouldn't be around this weekend and she offered to hold it -- finally I just told her I wasn't interested.

She sounded so defeated

12/16/2009 2:18:36 PM

Jillian's had a sweet arcade. We used to skip class in high school and go play pool/arcade games.

12/16/2009 2:19:00 PM

interesting. Several people "in the business" told me months ago that Buckhead was on its way out.

TIMES IS HARD YO.

and yeah, it doesn't help that the place absolutely sucks.

[Edited on December 16, 2009 at 2:28 PM. Reason : adsfasdffff]

12/16/2009 2:26:43 PM

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"Jillian's had a sweet arcade. We used to skip class in high school and go play pool/arcade games."

It was ok. That arcade credit card was a rip off. They didn't have enough classic games. It would have been nice to have a bubble hockey table too and more pinball machines.

12/16/2009 2:30:09 PM

I always dreamed of having my wedding at Buckhead.

Tis a sad day.

12/16/2009 2:31:59 PM

Basically, they got out-shitty-bar'd by Ugly Monkey. Ugly Monkey is fucking terrible, but it's so ridiculously terrible it's kind of amazing and even hipsters will go there.

As far as most bars struggling, I don't think that's true. Business is down everywhere, yes, but the places that adequately fill their niche in the market are still doing good business on a weekly basis.

12/16/2009 2:34:18 PM

^ hahaha. i forgot about that place. i haven't been in forever but yea, i agree. buckhead = terrible. ugly monkey = so ridiculously terrible that it is sometimes amazing.

i mean buckhead can't compete with cage dancing and jack daniels slushies and that jumbo shot wheel they have and bar tenders pouring shots in to slutty girls mouths and slutty girls dancing/falling off the bar. plus, ugly monkey doesn't have a shitty cover band playing.

12/16/2009 2:36:36 PM

yes hahaha

went there a few months ago and it was dead - can't believe after seeing that place packed out so many times it came to this

that place blew

worst live bands ever

12/16/2009 2:36:37 PM

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"they got out-shitty-bar'd by Ugly Monkey"

qft

12/16/2009 2:37:33 PM

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"I think most bars are struggling in this economy. Rum Runners also is now closed on Sunday and Monday. Sunday used to be $2 night. As far as Buckheads, I had to go there with a friend and it was nothing special. I would rather go to the Flying Saucer to drink beer, or go to Rum Runners, or The Pour House, if I want to see live music. You can't go wrong with Buffalo Wild Wings either when you want to watch many sporting events at the same time."

Actually, in down times bars usually do fine b/c some people are more inclined to drink.

12/16/2009 2:41:41 PM

I'm sure sadlacks is BOOMING

12/16/2009 2:42:29 PM

WHERE WILL BROOKS WOOD PLAY NOW?

(along with all the other shitty white dudes that play acoustic rap songs)

12/16/2009 2:51:03 PM

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"Well for all you atheists out there, here is proof that there is a God."

made me laugh.

I thought buckhead turned into a gay bar like a year ago

12/16/2009 2:59:13 PM

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"WHERE WILL BROOKS WOOD PLAY NOW? "

he moved to nyc and plays at brother jimmys

DUH

12/16/2009 2:59:52 PM

i went to one of those vip party things. they have bracelets so that those in the party get $1 beers and $2 well drinks. the birthday person gets a red cup and gets free drinks of all they want until midnight.

even that wasn't enticing enough for me to go again.

12/16/2009 3:10:33 PM

^^wtf, they don't have live music at brother jimmy's.

12/16/2009 3:13:17 PM

I've done a few VIP parties there as well. This last one, my friend had the most people there and because of that won a free Wii. Apparently she's been having some trouble getting them to cough it up though.

12/16/2009 4:03:14 PM

I work there.

We arent going under and arent going to close after the 31st.

We actually have a ton of things planned after the holidays and business has been really booming on Fridays.

This blog by Chuck isnt truthful at all and I know Chuck realllllly well..He is my realtor and former manager at Buckhead.

we arent going anywhere


why would we be closing when we have a New Years party planned on the 1st?

PS for New years the tickets from me are $10 normally $30 or I can get you open bar all night for $50

but no, we arent going under.

12/16/2009 5:15:49 PM

The problem is that it was just another bar. Places like that open and then everyone tries it out because it is the new bar in town. Then once it has been around for a little while people quit going because they go back to their old favorite place, or the new bar in town. At that point places like Buckhead close and everyone goes back because that building becomes the next new bar in town.

12/16/2009 5:23:13 PM

after all the poor service I have gotten there, I will not be going back there


there have been a couple of cool people working there, but the doucebags that think they are god's gift really are annoying


there was a guy working the side bar that served everyone around me for literally 15 minutes (new people coming up and getting served) and when he finally came down and tried to served another dude that had come up, I told him that I had been waiting while he was serving all these other guys and he flipped. He said I wasn't getting anything and he radioed the other bars not to serve me. So I rounded up the 20 people I had gotten to go there that night, and we left- I haven't been back since. But that is the kind of service I did get when I went 75% of the time

12/16/2009 5:29:20 PM

he is probably no longer there^

we have pretty much a brand new staff, one other guy and I are the only people left from the originals.

12/16/2009 5:31:09 PM

i'll admit, I had fun most of the times i was there- but the bad service negated all the good times


i'm sure i'll end up back there again sometime. do yall ever do the $20 all you can drink stuff anymore?

12/16/2009 5:33:51 PM

yea we just did it last thursday

12/16/2009 6:17:34 PM

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"WORST BAR EVER"

12/16/2009 7:14:38 PM

i thought jillians was close years before fuckheads

12/16/2009 7:17:23 PM